A federal judge on Tuesday postponed the re-trials for two former New Orleans police officers accused in the killing of Henry Glover days after Hurricane Katrina and the alleged cover-up that ensued. David Warren, charged with fatally shooting Glover without justification, will be tried on Aug. 26 instead of March 18; and Travis McCabe, suspected of writing a false police report about the incident, will be tried on Sept. 23 as opposed to March 11.

Attorneys for McCabe and Warren had asked for the delays and are seeking a change of venue as well. U.S. District Judge Lance Africk has ruled that arguments on the change of venue issue from the defendants and the prosecution must be submitted to him by March 8.

Meanwhile, Warren has also petitioned to be freed from federal custody on bond while he awaits his new trial. Africk set a March 21 hearing date for that request, and U.S. District Magistrate Judge Daniel Knowles III intends to hear a motion for discovery by Warren on March 20, court records showed Tuesday.

In December 2010, Warren was convicted of manslaughter for shooting and killing 31-year-old Glover on Sept. 2, 2005. Another officer, Greg McRae, was found guilty of burning Glover's body in a car. And McCabe was convicted of helping to whitewash those events in a report.

But, due to evidence that surfaced after the trial, Africk granted McCabe a new trial in 2011. Then, this past December, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new trial for Warren, ruling that he should have been tried separately from other officers who were charged variously with burning Glover's body and participating in a cover-up of Glover's death.

The appellate court also threw out one charge against McRae and scheduled him to be re-sentenced in July, though it's unclear whether his 17-year punishment will actually be reduced. His convictions on other charges were upheld, and the sentences run concurrently.

McCabe is free pending trial on a $100,000 property bond. Warren has been in jail since a grand jury indicted him in June 2010 on civil-rights violations in Glover's shooting.